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  1. Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough (techcrunch.com)
    ×4.70 81 | 126 points by msolujic 5 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)
    ×5.46 77 | 123 points by deely3 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Phosh 0.56.0 (phosh.mobi)
    ×1.49 47 #75 | 136 points by edward 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland (euronews.com)
    ×1.99 47 | 68 points by neilfrndes 7 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Europe's new climate in seven charts (bbc.com)
    ×5.98 42 | 144 points by saikatsg 12 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)
    ×3.31 33 | 661 points by javxfps 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices (arxiv.org)
    ×1.34 37 #53 | 78 points by dijksterhuis 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Y Combinator.singles (ycombinator.singles)
    ×2.27 67 | 11 points by nadermx 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (heise.de)
    ×6.76 26 #38 | 371 points by stavros 10 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: Are you guys happy with existing social networkin apps?
    ×4.39 53 | 8 points by julienreszka 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025) (acc.org)
    ×2.60 24 #59 | 157 points by RickJWagner 10 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Therac-25 (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.27 45 | 8 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Claude Design System Prompt (github.com/Trystan-SA)
    ×2.00 22 | 115 points by handfuloflight 13 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Small Penis Rule (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.40 31 #35 | 107 points by chistev 3 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix (localghost.dev)
    ×4.48 59 | 7 points by gslin 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)
    ×1.90 22 #49 | 81 points by amichail 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Hollywood's spent 25 years chasing the wrong lessons from The Lord of the Rings (polygon.com)
    ×2.21 38 #79 | 8 points by HelloUsername 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Programmers need to start meditating (jacob.gold)
    ×3.19 17 | 125 points by enz 14 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels (euronews.com)
    ×2.36 27 #46 | 20 points by jethronethro 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Do you hate XML? (2010) (sigfrid-lundberg.se)
    ×1.27 20 #56 | 29 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)
    ×2.82 14 | 511 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. The Mental Models I Use to Work with AI (metedata.substack.com)
    ×3.06 22 #77 | 10 points by young_mete 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. If you're a button, you have one job (aresluna.org)
    ×3.08 13 #50 | 519 points by nozzlegear 20 hours ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs (tomshardware.com)
    ×3.13 18 #27 | 74 points by logickkk1 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. FIFA makes U-turn following call from Trump (reuters.com)
    ×5.24 69 | 6 points by sxzygz 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on Ukraine (reuters.com)
    ×2.56 37 | 4 points by joebig 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. EasyJet reaches 'agreement in principle' over potential takeover (bbc.com)
    ×2.44 32 | 4 points by a_paddy 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Driving in China as a Tourist (ian.sh)
    ×3.21 15 #55 | 23 points by appwiz 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Ask HN: How to get a non-technical friend into tech?
    ×0.79 30 | 4 points by yesitcan 54 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Small details in my Mastodon client that I wanted more people to notice (on-t.work)
    ×2.42 28 | 4 points by birdculture 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Everyone loves apprenticeships. So why can't Britain create more of them? (ft.com)
    ×2.27 24 | 4 points by mmarian 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. OpenAI is fast-tracking its own "AI Agent Phone" for 2027 to challenge iPhone (reddit.com)
    ×1.74 17 #87 | 5 points by rmason 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix (shadcn.com)
    ×1.42 7 #58 | 271 points by dabinat 17 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI (windowslatest.com)
    ×2.28 52 | 4 points by ninko 16 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust (rayfish.xyz)
    ×1.76 7 #52 | 100 points by captain_dfx 9 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Here here, there is no there, there (silvestro2026.substack.com)
    ×2.24 29 | 3 points by silvestromedia 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)
    ×2.04 23 | 3 points by zdw 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Why New Jersey's balcony solar bill is a huge deal for renters (cnn.com)
    ×2.19 11 #45 | 9 points by breve 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs? (danielstanica.com)
    ×1.70 5 #20 | 134 points by thm 6 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Pacerift – I built a motorcycle telemetry app using only phone sensors (google.com)
    ×1.78 12 | 3 points by sauravXzent 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I'm an obsessed hobby cheesemaker. [AMA] (reddit.com)
    ×1.83 11 | 3 points by consumer451 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. LaCie drives just contain regular Seagate drives inside (twitter.com/eftegarie)
    ×1.89 10 | 3 points by amin 44 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Live Image/Video Translation (davidv.dev)
    ×1.86 9 | 3 points by wonger_ 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. WhaleCap: Keep your DeepSeek API credits from running out on day one (npmjs.com)
    ×1.88 7 | 3 points by wayepoint 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The future of Flipper Zero development (flipper.net)
    ×2.64 3 #6 | 156 points by croes 3 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. The bottleneck might be the air in the room (mikebowler.ca)
    ×4.47 2 | 806 points by gslin 1 day ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. RPB – Raylib Project Builder (itch.io)
    ×1.84 6 | 3 points by Erenay09 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. New contributors to GNU Emacs over time (reddit.com)
    ×1.14 3 | 6 points by srijan4 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Crosspoint Reader – A FOSS firmware for Xteink ereaders (crosspointreader.com)
    ×2.02 44 | 3 points by devonnull 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. RPC – Raylib Project Creator (itch.io)
    ×1.81 5 | 3 points by Erenay09 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Starring the Computer (starringthecomputer.com)
    ×1.51 2 #9 | 135 points by gitowiec 4 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A hot summer trend in the sharing economy? Rental swimming pools (npr.org)
    ×1.09 4 | 3 points by mooreds 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)
    ×2.95 1 #51 | 654 points by asronline 1 day ago | 270 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (2021) (dthain.github.io)
    ×1.84 1 #19 | 248 points by AlexeyBrin 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.92 1 #12 | 223 points by popcar2 7 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???